Editing Johnny Ringo (section)

=== Wyatt Earp claims ===

According to the book ''[[I Married Wyatt Earp]]'', which author and collector Glen Boyer claimed to have assembled from manuscripts written by Earp's fourth wife, [[Josephine Earp|Josephine Marcus Earp]], Earp and Doc Holliday returned to Arizona with some friends in early July and found Ringo camped in West Turkey Creek Valley. As Ringo attempted to flee up the canyon, Earp shot him with a rifle.<ref name=ortega29may /> Boyer refused to produce his source manuscripts, and reporters wrote that his explanations were conflicting and not credible. ''New York Times'' contributor [[Allen Barra]] wrote that ''I Married Wyatt Earp'' "...&nbsp;is now recognized by Earp researchers as a hoax."<ref>{{cite book |last=Lubet |first=Steven |title=Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp |year=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, CN |isbn=978-0-300-11527-7}}</ref>{{rp|154}}<ref name=ortega29may>{{cite web|last=Ortega|first=Tony|title=I Married Wyatt Earp|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-03-04/news/i-varied-wyatt-earp/|publisher=Phoenix New Times|access-date=29 May 2011|date=March 4, 1999|archive-date=2012-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020095737/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-03-04/news/i-varied-wyatt-earp/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Tombstone historian Ben T. Traywick thought the story about Earp's involvement was credible, reasoning that only Earp had sufficient motive, he was probably in the area at the time, and near the end of his life he told one historian "in circumstantial detail how he killed John Ringo".<ref>Lockwood, F. ''Pioneer Days in Arizona''. MacMillan (1932), p. 224. {{ASIN|B00085XW16}}</ref>  Earp was interviewed in 1888 by an agent of California historian [[Hubert H. Bancroft]], and in 1932, Frank Lockwood, who authored ''Pioneer Days in Arizona'', wrote that Earp told both of them that he killed Ringo as he left Arizona in March 1882 – almost four months before Ringo died. He included other details that do not match what is known about Ringo's death. Earp repeated his story to at least three other people.<ref name=gattoringo /><ref>{{cite web|title=An Arizona Vendetta|url=http://tombstonehistory.tripod.com/fhmsin.html|format=manuscript|year=c. 1918|access-date=April 16, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831071433/http://tombstonehistory.tripod.com/fhmsin.html|archive-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> In an interview with a reporter in Denver in 1896, Earp denied that he had killed Ringo; but later, privately, claimed once again that he had.<ref name=gattoringo>{{cite web|last=Gatto|first=Steve|title=Johnny Ringo – The Death of Johnny Ringo|url=http://www.johnnyringo.com/jrdeath.html|access-date=April 16, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406002032/http://www.johnnyringo.com/jrdeath.html|archive-date=April 6, 2011}}</ref>